This weekend the Serpentine Art Gallery hosts its sixth annual ideas marathon, where a swag of speakers from the arts and sciences converge to discuss their work, as well as the latest research in their fields, under the umbrella of a particular theme.
(Photo: Sven Klinge)
This year’s theme, “The Garden”, takes its inspiration from the 2011 Serpentine pavilion, designed by Peter Zumthor, with internal garden by Piet Oudolf.
Each year the Serpentine Gallery commissions an internationally recognised architect and/or designer – who has not yet completed a building in England – to design a temporary pavilion that will stand alongside the permanent gallery and host a variety of events.
The Garden Marathon will take place in and around Zumthor’s pavilion on Saturday 15th Oct from 12noon - 10pm, and on Sunday 16th Oct from 11am – 9pm.
(Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, designed by Peter Zumthor © Peter Zumthor. Photograph by Hufton+Crow)
Speakers include science fiction author Brian Aldiss, physicist David Deutsch, documentary film-maker Adam Curtis, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, musical polymath Brian Eno, sociologist Richard Sennett, designer & architect Charles Jencks, and Edge publisher John Brockman.
Highlights include:
- Dan Graham - Museum as Garden/Garden as Museum
- Brian Aldiss - Interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist
- John Brockman in Conversation with Brian Eno, Jennifer Jacquet & Mark Pagel
- Paul Smith – Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank: Supporting Innovation and Adaptation in Horticulture in a Changing World
- Marcus du Sautoy - Exploring the Mathematical Garden
- Richard Sennett - Open and Closed: How Gardens Serve as Places for Reflection
- Silke Otto-Knapp - “Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of Marianne North”, a reading
- Charles Jencks - The Universe in the Landscape
- Adam Curtis - I Am not a Garden. I Am a Machine
- David Deutsch - Why Are Flowers Beautiful?
The chief curator for the marathon weekend is Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions & Programmes, and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery.
Tickets are £25/£20 for both days, or £15/£10 for a single day. For more information and booking, click here.
For upcoming events at the Serpentine Gallery, click here.
Posted on October 12, 2011
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